Jobs / City University of New York
Site Reliability Engineer (IT Infrastructure Engineer 2) - Provisional
City University of New York · New York, NY, United States
New York, NY, United StatesFull timeExp: 5-7 yrs115,190-125,000 USDHybrid
Remuneration
Comprehensive benefits package, pension, and tax-deferred savings plans; health benefits eligibility depends on job classification and hours.
Location
New York, NY, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Site Reliability Engineer designs and operates secure, resilient, and scalable infrastructure for mission-critical academic and administrative applications across datacenter, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role covers servers, networks, storage, virtualization, containers, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response. It also maintains disaster recovery and business continuity, using technologies such as Linux, VMware, Ansible, Terraform, Python, Kubernetes, and Jenkins.
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits packageHealth benefits for eligible employees and dependentsPensionTax-deferred savings plans
Qualifications
- Education and experience in designing and engineering complex datacenters, networks, or cloud deployments
- At least three years of qualifying experience and a high school diploma or equivalent; additional education or listed certifications may substitute for some experience
- Assignment Level II requires two additional years of qualifying experience beyond the baseline requirements
- Demonstrated English language proficiency
- Preferred experience administering Linux and enterprise infrastructure for mission-critical systems
- Preferred experience with VMware virtualization, hybrid cloud, infrastructure automation, containers, CI/CD, and disaster recovery platforms
- A valid New York State driver's license may be required for some positions
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain datacenter, network, storage, virtualization, container, and cloud infrastructure
- Develop standard platform builds and system configurations using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management
- Automate provisioning, patching, and system hardening
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and operational automation
- Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, and security, improving observability and logging
- Troubleshoot vulnerabilities, performance bottlenecks, and connectivity issues
- Lead technical response to critical incidents and outages
- Develop, test, and document disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
- Collaborate with development, security, networking, and operations teams
Skills
AnsibleAzureDockerJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOctopus DeployOracle CloudPuppetPythonRHELSonarQubeTerraformVMwarevSphereOpenShift
Certifications
CISSPCertified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)CompTIA Linux+CompTIA Network+CompTIA Security+IBM Certified Solution Architect – Cloud Pak for DataITIL FoundationJuniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA)Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator AssociateNetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA)NetApp Certified Storage Installation Engineer (NCSIE)Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect ProfessionalRed Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)Kubernetes certifications
Degrees
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related fieldBachelor's degreeHigh school diploma or equivalent
Languages
English
Work schedule
Full-time
Industry
Higher educationInformation technologyEnterprise infrastructure
Relocation
No